San Antonio trail maintenance

Happy new year everyone!
I was wondering how we could get a trail maintenance day set up. A lot of the trails have branches hanging infront of the rider, a lot of dirt is washed out. I think it would be cool to organize a few hours where we can go trim the bushes and trees and rework some of the washed out areas. We can really improve our trail system I think. What do you guy think? I'm talking about the Leon creek trails primarily.

Yeah, but the flurries dont stick to well. At least over by the airport today. On the plus, colder weather allows us to flow through the clay mud a little easier. Or at least that is what I tell myself.

I know there is the one ramp on the Parkwood runs. Are there plans for further ones?

Yeah, but the flurries dont stick to well. At least over by the airport today. On the plus, colder weather allows us to flow through the clay mud a little easier. Or at least that is what I tell myself.

I know there is the one ramp on the Parkwood runs. Are there plans for further ones?

Im planning to wait a couple weeks to see if that wooden ramp stays or gets taken down by someone. I would like to continue to build up from that all the way to the top of the fire road. Have a couple more drops and maybe jump or two. It has nice flow with the two rock drops and that wood drop now.

A couple of my buds built some of those dirt jumps further up the trail (beginning of your video)going up towards the subdivision years back. It was a nice line. Some other guys decided it would be a good idea to use a chain saw to "help" them out and the residents up there called the Park Police. The popo told them that hillside is part of the HOA property of Parkwood and just told them to stop building/cutting there and left it at that. Thats why some of those dirt mounds are grown over nowadays.

That ramp looks cool, I'm glad you guys haven't made any changes to the rock drop right before the ladder. If you do any other work further up just be discrete and good luck, fwiw.

A couple of my buds built some of those dirt jumps further up the trail (beginning of your video)going up towards the subdivision years back. It was a nice line. Some other guys decided it would be a good idea to use a chain saw to "help" them out and the residents up there called the Park Police. The popo told them that hillside is part of the HOA property of Parkwood and just told them to stop building/cutting there and left it at that. Thats why some of those dirt mounds are grown over nowadays.

That ramp looks cool, I'm glad you guys haven't made any changes to the rock drop right before the ladder. If you do any other work further up just be discrete and good luck, fwiw.

Yea we def saw some remnants of a couple of berms and beginnings of drops. The rock drops will stay as they are. I really hope no one messes with the wood. As far as future building, everything will be done with manual tools so it should be fine! Do you still ride out here?

Yea we def saw some remnants of a couple of berms and beginnings of drops. The rock drops will stay as they are. I really hope no one messes with the wood. As far as future building, everything will be done with manual tools so it should be fine! Do you still ride out here?

A couple of hand-held wood saws and cordless drills (or just good ole fashioned hammer and nails) will do the trick.

There are still so many trails I haven't explored. I need to take some of my GPS routes and have them uploaded so others can follow my tracks.

I learned a few new trails when I rode with the guys on Christmas Eve.

I saw yesterday that some have dropped chalk (or baby powder) to make some trails stand out. I was thinking this morning while at work about perhaps some signs on the trees would help. I have wooden pallets on hand which are good scrap to make some directional signs. Perhaps we could even adopt some of the signage similar to ski slopes (green circles, blue squares, black diamonds). Any thoughts?

Idk about having different markings considering all the trails are pretty easy. I think it would be cool to lay out one good loop. Maybe 12-15 miles. And mark it for people that don't know the area very well

Depending on the route of the loop, a 15 mile loop could easily be made. For the sake of simplicity, the start point doesnt really matter, we could route something similar to:

1)OP cliff pavilion (small one) then head south and west to connect to the outer OP loop (running eventually to Braundera Lumber and then the cell tower)
2) Shoot south down to the creek
3) Take the creek north to Bamberger trails, loop around and head south
4) Go south past the OP concrete paths riding along the golf course down to Bandera Rd
5) U-Turn at Bandera running up the trails closer to the concrete path
6) Finish at the OP cliff pavilion

The majority of this on the trails except where we needed to pass over the concrete of course. I would was thinking of mapping a ride like that today if it wasn't raining so much. Maybe Friday for me then. Maybe this crudely drawn map can help. Dont judge my last minute drawing attempts.

some ahole noobs already tried to tear down the wood feature. They couldn't simply go around it. There were also skid marks all the way down the hill(that's why Im assuming noobs). I just don't understand why people can't leave stuff alone just because they aren't skilled enough to do it.